{
  "id": "CON-125",
  "slug": "con-125",
  "title": "Consent must not be claimed on behalf of unnamed partners",
  "statement": "The opt-in language must not purport to grant consent to \"our partners\", \"affiliates\", \"third parties\", or a linked partner list.",
  "rationale": "A consumer cannot consent to being messaged by a set of businesses they have not been told about, so this wording grants nothing while looking like it grants everything — and every carrier treats a number sent under it as having no consent behind it. It is standard boilerplate in lead-generation templates, which is how it reaches brands that have no intention of sharing anything.",
  "layer": "CONSENT_FLOW",
  "layerSlug": "consent-flow",
  "object": "consent disclosure text",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "CRAWL"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_WEBSITE",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR",
    "CTIA",
    "AWS",
    "Twilio",
    "AT&T"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Delete the partner and affiliate wording from the consent sentence and name only the entities that will actually send. If a partner genuinely needs to message these consumers, they must collect their own consent under their own brand. Done when the sentence contains no open-ended category of recipient.",
  "example": "By checking this box you agree to receive recurring automated marketing texts from Acme Coffee. (No partner, affiliate, or third-party clause.)",
  "pitfalls": [
    "Linking a page that lists the partners does not cure it: the consumer would have to read a list to know who they are agreeing to, and reviewers reject the pattern rather than the length of the list."
  ],
  "notes": "Distinct from CON-NO-TRANSFER, which is about where the consent CAME FROM. This rule is about a consent the brand did collect itself, worded to extend to senders it cannot bind. A brand can pass that rule and fail this one on the same page.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-125/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-125.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}